A Quote by Isaac Asimov

Oh, for a pin that would puncture pretension!

Isaac Asimov

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Isaac Asimov
American - Scientist
January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992

For the plain people of Ireland... If your car's got a puncture, and you know its got a puncture and its still got a puncture after two weeks, then you don't know how how to change a tyre.

Eamon

Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.

George Santayana

Pretension may sit still, but cannot act. Pretension never feigned an act of real greatness. Pretension never wrote an Iliad, nordrove back Xerxes, nor christianized the world, nor abolished slavery.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Marriage is not a natural phenomenon. It is artificial, arbitrary. And when it disappears you cannot do anything to bring it back. You can pretend, but that pretension makes you a hypocrite. And your pretension cannot deceive the woman, because she has known your love and the pretension cannot become the substitute. The only way is to separate - in friendship, because you have given each other so much.

Rajneesh

I come from an Irish working-class background but went to a posh school, and any type of pretension was quickly mocked at home. I've always had a keen eye for pretension.

Stephen Mangan

Finally I went and found my hat and skewered it on my head with a four-inch hat pin. I wore the hat because I knew my mother never visited without one. The pin I thought would be a comfort in case of emergency.

Megan Whalen Turner

I actually want to write a treatise in defence of pretension. I think the word 'pretension' has become like the word 'ironic' - just this catch-all term to distance people from interesting experiences and cultural engagement and possible embarrassment.

James Murphy

I woke up on the plane this morning and was turning on my phone and I had to put my pin number in. That's when I realized that since the age of 10 I've been using 2012 as my pin number. But now that I've won gold in the 2012 Olympics, I've achieved that goal and, for the first time in 14 years, I'll have to change my pin.

Cameron van der Burgh

I doubt there's anything you could say to Donald Rumsfeld that would puncture the armor of his narcissism.

Phil Klay

I've met a lot of pin-up girls, but I've never been able to pin one down

Groucho Marx

If someone needs a bobby pin or a safety pin, I always have it.

Camille Kostek

See a pin and pick it up, and, all day long, you'll have a pin.

Terry Pratchett

In our minds we tried to pin her to a corkboard like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew

Jerry Spinelli

I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.

Theophrastus

It’s just that I’m the kind of person,' Rebecca continued, 'that thinks if you took a map of the whole world and put a pin in it for every person, there wouldn’t be a pin for me.

Elizabeth Strout

You take five fingers. Individually, I can pin any one of them, but if I pin them together (makes a fist), it's damn near impossible to turn this around.

Ray Lewis

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